dr. king's to a ploy to sell trucks is appalling. dr. ng's message in this day and age under the circumstances that exists, given the we are up against as a people and where we look like we may be headed as a nation, is despicable. >> we will speak to sociologist and civil rights activist harry edwards and historian jeanne theoharis, author of the new book, "a more beautiful and terrible history: the uses and misuses of civil rights history." all that and more coming up. ♪ welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. global markets are tumbling this morning across asia and europe after the u.s. stock market went into a free fall on monday. the dow jones industrial average plunged by nearly 1,600 points in the middle of the day, marking the biggest point decline in financial history. the u.s. market then rallied slightly, but at the closing bell, the dow jones was still down by 1,175 points. while monday's plunge was alarming on wall street, many financial experts say the drop had been expected aft

dr. king's voice, why don't you do what dr. king said.ge in terms of business practices, sounds like they need to listen to dr. king's speeches rather than use them to sell their cars. >> that was a theme that was happening overall with super bowl. we've seen this on something like dr. king, the national holiday, people cherry picking a certain portion of the message and trying to use that for their own ends. but as you said, this was a man who was very specific in what he called for and what he thought were important. it was a message of not only unity, which is what a lot of people want to talk about, but there was also a message of justice, racial justice, economic justice and this was someone who is speaking out against wars that he found to be intolerable. this was a person who made those things and organized his life around those things and so when you look at dodge and look at other companies which are trying to only cherrypick a certain portion of that message, i think your question is a fair one. if you're going to go down that r

dr. king's dreams at the heart of the poor people's campaign. it also repositions dr. ralph abernathy as an effective leader of the post king civil rights movement. while it is clear resurrection city did not end poverty, it did help focus america's attention on the vast and diverse array of americans trapped by poverty. by examining the six-week encampment on the national mall, it is hard not to see the residence -- residents of the poor people's campaign. the mall has been the site of some in the moments where people have demanded a change in america. thisan americans used expanse of land from the lincoln memorial to the capital to from marianity anderson in 1939, to the march on washington in 1963, to the poor people's campaign, to the million man march. it has become sacred space to ask america to change. the images and artifacts within this exhibition are reminders that despite the economic growth and prosperity that has shaped this nation since 1968, there are still millions of americans without access to the american dream of economic opportunity. we hope this ex

before dr. king was assassinated, he was preparing to preach a sermon titled why america may go to hell. this sermon is more typical of today, not because of those seven deadly sins alone but because those sins aided and abetted by the age-old trick of divide and conquer politics are keeping us from addressing the and the existential threats of climate change. not to mention the common challenges like economic inequality and mass incarceration. dr. king was not able to preach that sermon but he left us some clues. either we will learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. he said, now more than ever before, america is challenged to realize it stream for the shape of the world -- realized it stream for the shape of the world today does not provide the luxury for an anemic democracy. the hour is late and the clock of destiny is taking out. -- ticking. we must act now before it is too late. the doomsday clock is closer to midnight then has been since the height of the cold war in 195

but dr. king didn't see it that way and neither did republican new york governor nelson rockefeller when he sent the money to bail out the children who put their bodies on the line during the birmingham campaign in the 60s. nonviolent direct action is not the liberal conservative thing to do. it is the right thing to do. [applause] it is the right thing to do in the face of unequal an unjust laws and the seven deadly sins fit the bill. [applause] the fact of the matter is that this is the decisive moment in the american story and the new chapter is being written. it's our cause for real patriot to employ creative synergy and sacrifice. patriots to see the urgency of collaboration and who put their careers and bodies on the line to get into what john lewis calls good trouble. [applause] and with that, i will leave you with these words from rabbi menendez. the world is equally violent between good and evil. your next act will tip the scales. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you. lawrence le

dr. king's work and what dr. king is doing in early 60s one of the thing he's doing in early 60s is he's traveling around a lot hooking up with movement and people around country including in -- los angeles. and king comes to los angeles multiple tombs in the early 60s and it is not just to raise money for birmingham he actually comes right after he gets out of o jail in birmingham but what he's talking about he's talking about police brutality because he knows and people have been organizing in 1962 right ronald stokes secretary of the local nation of islam mosque is killed by police a number of other members of the nation are wounded. this causes a kind of broad united front movement in louisiana. they're talking about a pattern of police brutality they're talking about need to fire chief parker these are not unknowns. demands and king is talking about police brutality too in 1963. he comes back in 1964 in 1964 -- finally in 1963 -- in l.a. and so not just l.a. but in california, activists had worked and fought

kennedy that dr. king in a birmingham city jail. in addition, walker and dr. tirelessly together to raise awareness about the struggle for civil rights. (vicki)topvo (vicki)topvo and after the break... a lonely library dog gets an outpouring of viral support... we'll explain... (vicki) well in one case... police catch a break case... police catch a break in an attempt gone hilariously wrong. police in shanghai released this video showing two suspects approaching a business... they each have what appears to be a brick in their hand. one throws it at the door, but the other one blows it. the would be crook's mistimed throw appears to knock his accomplice out cold. he now has to flee with an unconsicious partner in crime (grant)(grant) a bummed- out dog is about to get a lot more popular thanks to a facebook post.... twice a month, "sting" visits a library in minnesota so kids can read to him. it's part of a library program called "paws to read." but last week no one showed up to read to sting. so his owner posted some lonely-looking pics of him on facebook. it w

dr. king, 50 years after the sanitation strikers there in memphis which was the reason he came, we are confronted with the same issues under donald trump that we had 50 years ago when dr. king was assassinated fighting for workers in memphis. >> well, you're exactly right. it is important for all of us to commemorate the weekend of april 3rd, april 4th, this year, 50 years since that sanitation workers strike. 1,300 african-american sanitation workers of afscme local 33 going on strike. remember they carried those placards that said i am a man. dr. king decided to travel to memphis on numerous occasions because he understood the connection between civil rights and economic and labor rights and human rights. he ultimately gave his life in support of those sanitation workers. we have got to remember that day. we've got to commemorate the importance of that strike and dr. king giving his life for those rights. but we have -- we also have to have a call to action. we can't have one or two days of

other thing that's fascinating, in this very speech that dr. kinghe talked about buying vehicles. he basically was telling people don't go buy vehicle you can't afford. it's not all about that. the whole thing is really fascinating. there was a message of greed and purchasing and all that but the thing that bothered people the most as they were watching was the fact that it's buy trucks. >> it does remind us that we should hear his words more often. we should fit those into the dialogue. >>> now that the republican memo is out, what are the consequences? how can trust between law enforcement and congress be restored? we'll get the bottom line next. >> tech: at safelite autoglass we know that when you're spending time with the grandkids... ♪ music >> tech: ...every minute counts. and you don't have time for a cracked windshield. that's why at safelite, we'll show you exactly when we'll be there. with a replacement you can trust. all done sir. >> grandpa: looks great! >> tech: thanks for choosing safelite. >> grandpa: thank you! >> child: bye! >> tech

whatever went wrong back there doesn't really matter. >> what does dr. king like?demmy god. you had a personal relationship with him and you said he had a great sense of humaner >> very funny. he couldn't be funny on camera so he saved it for off stage. a lot of leafter and then he had to get serious again. >> what do you tell anybody when you go out on the final hard slog tour? what are you hoping to get and give. >> i will sing and try to bring beauty to the world, you know the best i can. i will tell people they should happily choose denial 80% of the time and then figure out what they're going to do with the 20% where they can be of use to somebody. to reintroduce empathy, compassion, kindness, intelligence, all these things, fake that 20 or 15% of your life and do that on any level. i mean, when a kid says or somebody says well what can i do? it's what -- i can't tell you what to do. but i say follow your heart where -- you know, any compassion news it's giving you, listen to it and act upon it. >> well that's a very good note to end in a master class. joan th

dr. king's images and that speech. the message embodied dr. tree greatness is achieved by serving others. that was actually dr. king warning about spending too much money on a new car and speaking of spending too much money on things, it really is pretty interesting right now, apple music subscriber rates are growing aggressively right now. they're close to swroefr take spotify as the world's largest music streaming platform. apple introduced the service back in 2015 and they're now growing at 5% a month, compared to 2% a month for spotify. this competition could be a bit of a challenge for spotify in the next couple of months they're looking to go public on the market. so this is something to watch quite closely. >> and a somewhat tough week for investors last week and the market will open later this morning after a rocky week. and friday, end, a tailspin. what should investors expect this week? >> well, if you look at the markets in asia and europe today, not a very pretty picture. if you look at the futures, the expectations for the u.s. bef

she was a good friend of the kings, dr. king and his wife, coretta. she -- when they decided to great the great neighborhoods initiative, great society initiative to strengthen neighborhoods in atlanta, she was the head of the program and had a whole bunch of different neighborhood captains, and the mayor came to her and said, listen, i have to warn you -- because the was an african-american -- still is an african-american woman. hasn't changed. one of your neighborhood captains is a grand dragon in the kkk. just so you know. and she described that very first meeting where all the captains name and one refuse today touch her or shake her hand. she was, oops, that's the one. so, he would come in from time to time and sit in her office and she would talk to him. about whatever. and she says, dr. king told her, you don't try to change hearts. leave that to god. you have no control over whether a heart is changed. you don't have that power. but you can be a human being and respectful, and that's what she did. and they would talk to each other. he ended up

thanks for having me each february we see and hear and read wistful tales about dr king and rosa parks and jackie robinson and thurgood marshall back to the future years from now how will historians describe race relations today. i would say that historians would describe race relations today as being somewhat some ochoa with especially given all of the protests and demonstrations that have been happening since two thousand and fourteen what the birth of the black lives matter movement as well as all of the concerns that have been raised about donald trump's handling of race relations in the united states you mentioned two thousand and fourteen which i think might have been an inflection point i am a baby boomer and as a child in the one nine hundred fifty s. i witnessed the struggle on black and white t.v. in the one nine hundred sixty s. people my age join protests but now armed with smartphones and powered by social media millennialists are broadcasting painful episodes like ferguson has this media evolution produced accountability noise both. why i would say that social media has b

dr. king and showing that he was a nonpartisan, nonracial leader, helped save the lives of all men created equal. so that goes so far that he's willing to put it on the line. he made the head usher resign that day when he made that courageous, but what he felt probably wasn't courageous at all but the right action. so billy graham even to his last day when he made a short video was all about informing people about jesus, about the salvation they could have if they would just embrace jesus, and find what eternal life really is all about. that it isn't what treasures we store here on this planet but the ones we store in heaven. we embrace them. never another like him but we can always remember him with pride and as he would say himself that his stores are in heaven and he'll be stronger up there with his legacy and memory and his family members that go on to do what he does. god bless billy graham and i thank you for the time tonight, mr. hultgren. mr. hultgren: thank you, mr. lamalfa. next hono

dr. martin luther king. the next day, april 4, 1968, dr. king was assassinated as he stood on the balcony at the loraine motel. four days on april 8, 1968, 42,000 people marched in memphis. the strike was resolve on april 16. the 1,300 sanitation workers in memphis took a stand for freedom and displayed courage. in his april 3 speech, dr. king said, quote, now we're going to march again and we've got to march again in order to put the issue where it's supposed and force everybody to see that there are 1,300 of god's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out. that's the issue and we have to say to the nation, dr. king said, we know how it's coming out, for when people get caught up with that which is right and willing to sacrifice for it, there's no stopping point short of victory. end of quote. now, 50 years later, this resolution that senator jones and i and senator cardin and senator corker introduced seeks to recognize their sacrifice and contributio

he later bailed dr. king out of jail. dr. king said that, quote, had is not been for the ministry of my good friend dr. billy graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been. that's the end of dr. king's quote. he spoke about critical issues. his faith inspired him to build bridges fo. for decades he was always included in the gallop organization's ten most admired men in the world. 61 times, more than anyone else in the history of that poll. he led a remarkable faith-filled life. he touched many lives. in fact, if there's no objection, mr. president, i'd like to include in the record this article yesterday from -- or earlier in the week. it's february 23, "wall street journal" from george w. bush talking about the impact billy graham had on his life. and i thought my favorite line in that article when george w. bush's father was president, his father was gone. he and his mother, barbara, were having dinner at the white house. they began to argue a little bit about what it took to

i was eight years old when dr. king was killed. subsequently bounced around and i taught history in new orleans and i had a thing called the magic bus. i would take college students around the country and we would visit history sites. we created one for civil rights tours. we went to birmingham and atlanta studying the civil rights movement but i would go to montgomery and those days there was no memorials for rosa parks. there was one street named after her jefferson davis avenue intersected with rosa parks boulevard that i wanted to see where rosa parks lives on december 1, 1955 when the montgomery bus boycott kicked in and she became the mother of the movement. it was the most decrepit underfunded housing project she was living in and in her room without exaggerating, her home was the size of the stage. she lived with her husband raymond in this impoverished away yet her integrity level was so high. she didn't go to college but she went to an industrial school for girls where they taught home economics. it was one of the booker

she was a good friend of the kings, dr. king and his wife coretta. she, when they decided to create the great neighborhoods initiative, great society initiative to strengthen neighborhoods here in atlanta, she was appointed as the head of that program. and she had a whole bunch of different neighborhood captains. and the mayor came to her and said, listen, i have to warn you -- because she was an african-american -- still is an african-american woman. [laughter] that hasn't changed. he said i have to warn you that one of your neighborhood captains is a grand dragon in the kkk. just so you know. and she describes that very first meeting where all the captains came in, and one of them refused to touch her or shake her hand, and she goes, oh, that's the one. laugh so he would come in from time to time and sit in her office downtown, and she would talk to him. about whatever. and she says dr. king told her, you don't try to change hearts. leave that to god. you have no control over whether a heart is changed. you don't have that power. but you can be a h

dr. martin luther king jr. >> you don't have to know the theory of relativity.ow the general theory of thermodynamics in physics. you only need a heart full of grace. soul generated by love. >> that commercial evoking an angry backlash on social media from users who felt it was inappropriate for a company to use the civil rights leader for commercial purposes, especially given that the theme of the speech is in direct opposition to materialism. the mlk estate did approve use of the speech in the ad, but dr. king's daughter bernice tweeted that she did not. thanks for watching "nightline," and as

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but, in fact, the nfl protesters are polling higher than dr. king at the height of his protests.eople protesting for justice and equality has never been popular. and these nfl players by putting themselves on the line, putting their careers on the line, have been a symbol for the very best of our democracy. and the fact no one expects donald trump to tweet about that teacher who assaulted a young student but thinks he's going to be attacking black nfl players, that also says a lot about where our potics a and where we need to go. >> bill, last question to you. i want you to sua this for us in the conversation about where the nfl is and where the nfl is going. you look at viewership. i was struck by statistics by african-americans who follow football closely. 2015 compared to today, you see a diminishment there. what does that statistic say so you as you think of the future of football and engagement with the issues we've been talking about? >> the nfl has a tremendous challenge ahead for all the reasons you mentioned, the violence issue. but the biggest problem the nfl has if you

. >> stephen: now that sounds inappropriate until you remember that dr. king was awarded j.d.nd associates' best midsize humanitarian. ( laughter ) and initial customer satisfaction, i believe, is what he got. ( laughter ) and this ad is part of a whole new campaign for dodge. >> dr. king said he'd been to the mountain top and what better way to get there than dodge ram's powerful four while drive and multilink suspension. for it was the dalai lama that said the purpose of our lives stop happy, like the happiness that comes from the 6.4 litter hemiengine. joan of arc, we don't know if she loved dodge ram's infotainment display but who is to say she didn't. sthe cabin is big enough to make out in. here's a soldier with his child in the dog if that didn't work. >> stephen: we have a great show for you tonight. claire danes is here. but when we return, i share some of my private confessions. stick around. this is google home max. it's a speaker that's smart. it'll tune to your room and fill it with music. so if you want to feel all the layers of that acoustic version you love...

. >> like dr. kingeem the soul of america we first have to redeem ourselves. >> how did that interview affect you. >> major. john lewis is evidence of grace in the world. >> hold on. never give up. >> i get to use that beautiful language of john lewis to say to my audience. >> never give in. never lose faith. keep the faith. >> for "nightline" i'm deborah roberts in new york. >> our thanks to deborah. "notes from the field" airs saturday night on hbo. and next the touching tribute to the florida school shooting victims by major league baseball today. >> announcer: abc news "nightline" brought to you by ford. ford. ♪ we the people... are defined by the things we share. and the ones we love. who never stop wondering what we'll do or where we'll go next. we the people who are better together than we are alone... are unstoppable. welcome to the entirely new expedition. you were borne to rock... borne to piggyback... and you don't want anything stopping you. airborne plus beta-immune booster™ is the only imm

where dr. kinggh a newspaper that clarence jones smuggled into the jail, king wrote in the margins in between ads and things like that. the other thing about clarence jones is that when they were trying to come up with the bail money, the kennedys and kings group coming up with the money to get the birmingham kids out of jail, clarence jones went into the vault of chase manhattan bank in rockefeller center with the vice president from the bank to walk out with a suitcase of cash to be a part of that bail money. now clarence jones is. >> harry bellefonte helped bobby. >> i wanted to speaking about rescue taylor aches sharecropper from alabama who in 1944 was abducted and gang raped by six white men. she was threatened to be killed if she spoke out at all. eventually two all male all white grand juries never indicted one of her assailants even one of them confessed to the crime. it took a half century for her to receive an apology from the state of alabama. her story has doesn't rounds again against t

read the files on dr. king and that is the playbook for a while. -- the argument is this is partisan. i understand the argument about it is important for the fisa judge to know that the providence of this information was from the dnc. that is not entirely true because it was republican before it was democratic. so that is an issue. but it is material if you believe the investigation is inherently political. >> and in fairness, steele -- the steele wasn't hired until clinton was paid. so that is a -- that is a fair critique. >> but the issue is about this evidence. it is -- i kept thinking that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. this idea that we have said there is no evidence of collusion doesn't mean there is none. it just means we haven't heard of it or it hasn't come out yet. so there is some logical issues that we have to keep straight. >> and there is evidence of collusion. we keep using this word collusion which has no legal meaning and is very amorphous. was there cooperatation? sure. wiki-leaks released the e-mails -- >

dr. king's assassination. what i'm interested in is your perspective as you look at that 50 years, and you and i beth have the honor of sitting in this great house and what it means. but that economic justice aspect, as you look back and think about, i'm glad you brought up about the issue of our fighting for the sanitation workers and what he was doing. so if you look back and you look where we are today, speak to a little bit of where you think we are because just last tuesday we sat in this house and we heard the president give the state of the union. so you heard what the president said in his state of the union. you know about what dr. king -- that issue about economic justice in the black community, if you had to measure it, where are we? >> i'll tell you. how you describe the state of our union depends on what -- mr. richmond: how you describe the state of our union depends on what zip code you live in. there are zip codes where the state of our union is great. people are overjoyed the stock market was

a reporter the day after the shooting some trees were brushed behind the rooming house from which dr king was supposed to have been shot were being cut down. it sure does suck when you misplace half of a major crime scene and thereby make it all the first hand witnesses who said they saw smoke coming from the bushes instead of the boarding room sound nuts because there are no bushes. this was this is basically the analog version of wiping the hard drive all right this is back it back in nineteen sixty eight it was just called wiping the yard. you were young you would think i couldn't really claim wiping the yard with accidental but they did they were lying we all know who cut down the bushes somebody just mistakenly believed on the lawn. number five waco texas as you recall in one thousand nine hundred three the f.b.i. laid siege to the branch davidian compound and during the assault a massive fire broke out the f.b.i. so vehemently denied that it had any blame for the fire that killed nearly eighty people how is it coincidence said when a happened to be driving tanks into a building that

he was an activist, he marched with dr. king. laid on pallets on the homes of the mothers and tomatoes from the garden when they were going out to march for selma and the civil rights act and voting rights and that kind of stuff. he said when i was under the tutelage of paul robeson and deboise, he told me something, this is the greatest time ever. why would you say that? because when there's great pain and this is what dubois told me, when there's great pain there's activism, radical activism that effectuates change. the question is where is that activism. people will get up on twitter and do this, you know, i'm upset, take that. [laughter] >> behind an emoji, like you're doing-- all they do is block it. people are not willing, as reporters, i'm not seeing-- we might see the women go out the day before, the next day after inauguration. i haven't seen-- and a year later, but i'm not seeing the ground swell that harry belafonte was talking about. when i talked to him again, he was kind of upset about that. because people talk abou

i question the motives of the fbi with dr. king and other issues.no one has made that particular problem with david nuÑez. host: now you have. i want to give michael a chance to respond to that. think that your callers know this because they watch the show a lot. , it isital, the congress an inherently political institution. we try, in different forms and different committees, to remove or otherwise reduce the politics. at the end of the day, there are two parties, and weber has the majority is going to be the chairman of a committee. person is going to have a political affiliation. that member, in this case david nuÑez, is a legitimate voice on national security issues. he speaks to this. he is also a republican. he speaks his mind on issues to the public. committees ishe that you are supposed to rise above partisanship when it comes to matters of national security. there is a debate going on now. not?his unduly partisan or time will tell. we have a lot of interesting things coming out. we will see the democratic memo, i predict. doje is the dlg --

told a reporter the day after the shooting some trees or brush behind the rooming house from which dr king was supposed to have been shot were being cut down. it sure does suck when you misplace half of a major crime scene thereby making all the first hand witnesses who said they saw smoke coming from the bushes instead of the boarding room sound nuts because there are no bushes. this was this is basically the analog version of wiping the hard drive all right this is back it back in nineteen sixty eight it was just called wiping the yard. you were young you would think i couldn't really claim wiping the yard with accidental but they did they were lying we all know who cut down the bushes somebody just mistakenly believed on the lawn. number five waco texas as you recall in one thousand nine hundred three the f.b.i. laid siege to the branch davidian compound and during the assault a massive fire broke out the f.b.i. so vehemently denied that it had any blame for the fire that killed nearly eighty people it was a coup answered and said when it happened to be driving tanks into a building tha

in what dr. king called the fierce urgency of now is upon us. if we fail to take action today, the dreams of 800,000 young people under the deferred action for childhood arrivals, known as daca, and thousands of others like them will turn to nightmares. it is truly a terrifying prospect that dreamers face, the prospect that at any moment after they fall out of status, they could be snatched up by president trump's deportation forces, torn away from their families and sent to countries they consider foreign lands. well, i refuse to be complicit in that nightmare. i refuse to be complicit in the deportation of innocent children. i refuse to be complicit in those studying and working and studying in my home state of new jersey. it is only out of compassion for them and commitment to them that i'm prepared to vote for the bipartisan deal reached last night, the rounds-king version. let me be very clear. this is not the deal i would have drafted. it is far from the deal i would want. but i know for a fact that it is the only deal with a shot at becom

story just this week and i want you to regail it and give it to the crowd, when coretta scott king, the widow of dr. martin luther king, jr. was alive they used to talk on mlk day, and the question was-- what was the question, dr. berry. >> what would martin do? >> use your microphone. use your microphone. your microphone. >> turn it on. >> it would be what-- we would talk about two things, one, we'd talk about what would martin do about whatever was going on, you know? what would martin do? and we would talk about it. and then we would say, she would say, well, what would martin say and we would talk about what martin would have said about whatever was going on. and this was for years. and in between martin luther king day, depending what was happening around the world so i always ask myself. i just came back from speaking down in tampa for their martin luther king celebration and what i talked about with as what martin would say and what he would do about all of this going on and one of the stories-- you want me to tell the story? >> tell the story. >> one of the stories one time was the lbgt gro

he marched with dr. kinglaid on pallets in the homes of these mothers who fed, fed them to made us on the you're going out to march 1 selma and the civil rights act and for the playwrights and all that kind of stuff. he said look, when i i was undr the tutelage of people like w.e.b. du bois, he told me something that you said this is the greatest time i've ever dash but -- why would you say? because when there is great pain, this is what w.e.b. du bois told and come when this great pain first activism, radl activism that effectuate change. but the question is what is that activism? people will get up on twitter and do this. i'm upset, take that. like you are doing something. i just like you. people are not willing, i'm not saying, we might see the women out the day after, the next after inauguration to have seen, a year later, but i'm not seeing the groundswell that harry belafonte was talking about. when i talk to begin he was kind of upset about that because people talk about his views ean twitter but i'm n

dr. king's 50th and really celebrating the life and legacy of dr. king.ruck me at that moment that our nation is we're at a transit point. we're fighting for the very soul of our nation. he was called upon to lead and to lead all of us. we're all americans. this language of divisiveness to deconstruct at a time we need leadership. i would continue to urge him as i've been doing to step up to this moment, to live up to the legacy that was handed to him by those that know how to lead. that our entire nation even though of us who were dead set against him would line up if he would do that and lead this nation in a fashion that is commensurate to being the great leader in the world. >> i'll just preface this by saying my college thesis was on the executive office of the presidency. i have a tremendous affinity for the office, the influence of the office and how americans really viewed prior to this president, the office of the president. whether it was a president you didn't support or not. i never forget when ronald reagan came to my college. we were just as

there is no place for prejudice and racism and that but after the news came that dr. king was killed there was a separate almost automatic immediate separation of races and literal different sides of the camp. we lived on a fire support base. there was a lot of tension and a lot of anger floating around and of course what that does to a unit, you don't know if you'll have the same buddy you had before so we were lucky enough to have an officer and african-american officer if you want to talk about that. >> tom framed it exactly right. the racial tension was palpable because we had officers locating in and out a lot mainly because they had been killed or seriously injured. we got a new company commander as tom said. he was 21 or 22 years old african-american lieutenant from chicago. he grabbed hold of the racial issue straight up and said no more. we are going to integrate the tents again no more black pants, white tents. we will be unit and we will fight together and take care of each other and he truly exhibited leadership that i have rarely seen in a very difficult situa

dr. martin luther king jr. had a dream to sell light duty trucks. [ laughter ] a lot of people were upset last night at the voice of dr. king used to sell trucks. mattresses, yes. you can buy a serta perfect sleeper on mlk day no problem at all every year. but dodge ram trucks, no -- they say it was the most polarizing super bowl ad since the men's wearhouse buy one get one free at last dael deal back in 1998. you remember that? oh, boy, you think there was outrage. but luckily for dodge, they got? cover from doritos today. doritos is said to be working on a female-friendly tortilla chip, for real. the doritos lady chips. they say they make less noise when you eat them and the package will be smaller so it can fit in a purse. it took years of research but they finally cracked the code on how to make a dorito condescending to women. i hope they call them doritas. [ applause ] as i mentioned, people are mad about this. why i have no idea. making doritos for people with smaller hands that you can eat quietly like

about on a day like this. >> but you also said something about there were components of what had dr. kingwould do, though -- one would be to organize. >> one of the things that he always -- would do about issues a learned over time that's the other thing, i mean, he wasn't just born with so much wisdom that he didn't food to learn anything and when he was chosen to be the leader by the people in montgomery in that church he wasn't born as a leader with a little thing on his belly saying you're the leader. he learned when they made a mistake like albany movement was a terrible failure. [laughter] there were some failures throughout the and he would learn and how to strategize how to organize -- how to pick targets. and how to figure out what you were going to get out of some situation when you were trying to lead the people. because as he would say effective leader is -- not somebody who tries to lead the people and you don't sit around to figure out what you're trying to do or what the end result ought to be. you ought to be -- you know organized not enough even to be courageous. and to b

dr. martin luther king jr. and it's drawing some backlash. >> you want to be important. wonderful.d. wonderful. >> so critics say the idea of using the civil rights leaders word to "sell trucks crossed the line" calling it everything from crass to inappropriate. ram says the cole was to highlight its volunteer program. dr. king's intellectual property firm says it did approve the use of the speech in this ad because they felt it embodied his philosophy. >>> so you know sometimes up find a magazine or maybe one of those thick bags in the back pocket of an airplane seat s1 passenger found sensitive documents from the department of homeland security laying out antiterrorism preps for the super bowl. 78 pages of top-secret planning were somehow left by someone on the inside on a commercial flight. they included travel plans for senior staff members and explicit instructions on how to handle a potential bio terror attack. >> look i'm not going to pretend that this is america's crown jewels. on the other hand it is obviously significant that these were left behind. one is it shows a sort